Black and White keep the seventeen types and the effectiveness chart of the previous generation: nothing changes on paper. What changes is the Pokémon. Unova brings brand-new combinations, with quadruple weaknesses, surprising immunities and a Pokémon with no weakness at all. Here is the full chart and the dual types you need to know.
Read the chart row by row: the row is the type of the attack , the column is the type of the Pokémon receiving it. ×2 : super effective; ½ : not very effective; 0 : no effect. Against a dual-type Pokémon, the multipliers stack.
📊 The type chartAttack ↓ / Defense → Normal Fire Water Grass Electric Ice Fighting Poison Ground Flying Psychic Bug Rock Ghost Dragon Dark Steel
Normal ½ 0 ½ Fire ½ ½ ×2 ×2 ×2 ½ ½ ×2 Water ×2 ½ ½ ×2 ×2 ½ Grass ½ ×2 ½ ½ ×2 ½ ½ ×2 ½ ½ Electric ×2 ½ ½ 0 ×2 ½ Ice ½ ½ ×2 ½ ×2 ×2 ×2 ½ Fighting ×2 ×2 ½ ½ ½ ½ ×2 0 ×2 ×2 Poison ×2 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 Ground ×2 ½ ×2 ×2 0 ½ ×2 ×2 Flying ×2 ½ ×2 ×2 ½ ½ Psychic ×2 ×2 ½ 0 ½ Bug ½ ×2 ½ ½ ½ ×2 ½ ×2 ½ Rock ×2 ×2 ½ ½ ×2 ×2 ½ Ghost 0 ×2 ×2 ½ ½ Dragon ×2 ½ Dark ½ ×2 ×2 ½ ½ Steel ½ ½ ½ ×2 ×2 ½
📘 Same-type attack bonusAn attack that matches the type of the Pokémon using it gains 50% power. An Emboar (Fire and Fighting) therefore hits harder with Flamethrower or Heat Crash than with an attack of another type with the same power.
🛡️ Weaknesses and resistances by type
Type Weak to Resists Immune to
Normal Fighting — Ghost Fire Water, Ground, Rock Fire, Grass, Ice, Bug, Steel — Water Grass, Electric Fire, Water, Ice, Steel — Grass Fire, Ice, Poison, Flying, Bug Water, Grass, Electric, Ground — Electric Ground Electric, Flying, Steel — Ice Fire, Fighting, Rock, Steel Ice — Fighting Flying, Psychic Bug, Rock, Dark — Poison Ground, Psychic Grass, Fighting, Poison, Bug — Ground Water, Grass, Ice Poison, Rock Electric Flying Electric, Ice, Rock Grass, Fighting, Bug Ground Psychic Bug, Ghost, Dark Fighting, Psychic — Bug Fire, Flying, Rock Grass, Fighting, Ground — Rock Water, Grass, Fighting, Ground, Steel Normal, Fire, Poison, Flying — Ghost Ghost, Dark Poison, Bug Normal, Fighting Dragon Ice, Dragon Fire, Water, Grass, Electric — Dark Fighting, Bug Ghost, Dark Psychic Steel Fire, Fighting, Ground Normal, Grass, Ice, Flying, Psychic, Bug, Rock, Ghost, Dragon, Dark, Steel Poison
🧩 Unova’s dual types to know
Pokémon Types Key points
Eelektross Electric With its Levitate ability, it has no weaknesses Hydreigon Dark and Dragon Immune to Psychic; weak to Fighting, Bug, Ice and Dragon Chandelure Ghost and Fire Immune to Normal and Fighting; weak to Water, Ground, Rock, Ghost and Dark Seismitoad Water and Ground Only one weakness: Grass ×4; immune to Electric Bisharp Dark and Steel Fighting ×4; immune to Psychic and Poison Escavalier Bug and Steel Only one weakness: Fire ×4 Ferrothorn Grass and Steel Fire ×4 and Fighting; immune to Poison Golurk Ground and Ghost Immune to Normal, Fighting and Electric Stunfisk Ground and Electric Immune to Electric; weak to Water, Grass, Ice and Ground Volcarona Bug and Fire Rock ×4, Water and Flying Leavanny Bug and Grass Fire ×4 and Flying ×4 Krookodile Ground and Dark Immune to Electric and Psychic
Eelektross
Hydreigon
Chandelure
Seismitoad
Bisharp
Escavalier
Ferrothorn
Golurk
Stunfisk
Volcarona
Leavanny
Krookodile
